Chapter 11. Developing Native Android Apps

You know all the features of an Android handset and have started playing with it. You have an idea for a brilliant application that you wish was shipped with the Android handset. You decide to create the application yourself and experience the excitement of running your application on your Android handset.

In this chapter, we take a look at developing native Android applications. Native Android applications are applications that run within the Android runtime on an Android handset. Let’s look at what you need to get started developing native Android applications.

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